Insider Rowing

Another long delay. Haven’t been blogging much this month due to other off-line business items getting taken care of.
What’s the best thing going on in rowing right now? That’s right, the Waddell vs. Drysdale drama escalating in New Zealand. Waddell and Drysdale raced at the Cambridge Town Cup in Lake Karapiro over the weekend, with […]

Was forwarded this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZYljUt-iw

Total length: 2:22.
Rowing down Harvard in the last 500m after four miles of valve bursting redline is ballsy. All I can say about it.

I heard about this online video last year but never really had a chance to check it out. It’s excellent. Row Like Pigs details the season of Dartmouth’s varsity heavyweight men in 2002-2003. You follow them from the beginning of winter training through Eastern Sprints. In particular, you hear the voice and style of two […]

One of the big surprises were the boys from the Pacific Rowing Club who won the men’s youth 8+ event. Regarded earlier in the season as the third fastest crew in the San Francisco Bay area (they had lost to Marin and Los Gatos), Pacific qualified for Youths by placing second at the Southwest Regional […]

I really liked the article about rowing at the University of Virginia by Ed Miller in the May 26 edition of the Virginian-Pilot. The author goes fairly deep and gives you more than the same-old same-old about rowers getting up at the crack of dawn for the love of the sport. Mr. Miller gives you […]